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Region Sud | Summaries from the LIFE Integrated Project (IP) "Smart Waste" now available

Published: 17 December 2018

ACR+ member Region Sud has published online reports on two workshops organised in the framework of the LIFE Integrated Project “Smart Waste”.

The first report summarises the workshop on “How to promote re-employment in waste centres?”, which took place on 25 September 2018. Participants of the workshop concluded that there is a need to re-think the concept of waste centres, the communication among stakeholders, and that the mission of the waste centres should be enhanced through innovative concepts.

The LIFE Integrated Project “Smart Waste” project started in 2018 and aims for a region-wide transition towards an innovative, sustainable, inclusive and integrated circular economy. During a first phase around hundred concrete actions will be implemented by partners (such as replacing door-to-door collection with new bring banks). Then, two calls for projects will be launched targeting exemplary territories and economic actors. To strengthen the regional dynamic, the project foresees the organisation of 12 annual workshops around 6 priority themes linked to the actions implemented. The latest workshop took place on 4 December 2018 and focused on how to better arrange public space in order to improve waste sorting.